Alas for those who break faith with Divine Science, and fail to strangle the serpent of sin, as well as of sickness!

" The stranger answered, "Courage, I will kill the serpent, if it please God.

Going inland one day with twenty men, we saw a serpent which was about twenty-four feet in length, and as large in girth as myself.

If he finds a serpent in his house, he sets up an altar to it.

It is reported that the inhabitants of the country at the Cape of Good Hope are great witches, and by inchantment bring certain serpents so much under command, that they preserve their churches, churchyards, gardens, orchards, barns, and cattle, both from wild beasts and thieves.

The valley was circular and hollow, like the bottom of a crater; the winding river resembled a serpent; the high hills, ranged one behind the other, surrounded this mysterious spot like a triple line of inexorable walls; once there, there is no means of exit.

You loathe and fear the serpent in this basket, as I loathe and fear the serpent which is in you."

"Certainly you are very clever," said Manuel, when they had passed this serpent.

He stripped it of its skin, and clothing himself in this trophy of conquest, drove all the other serpents to the south.

I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.

They represented a serpent and a sun, besides men and animals.

[Footnote 1: Can, of which the "determinative" form is canil, may mean a serpent, or the yellow one, or the strong one, or he who gives gifts, or the converser.]

While I was making these observations, I suddenly heard a merry cry outside the court-yard; I proceeded to the place from which it issued, and saw two boys dragging towards me a large dark brown serpent; certainly more than seven feet long, at the end of a bast- rope.

If this name of Obboney has any relation to the Ob of Egypt, and if the Ob, both anciently in Egypt, and to this day in the west of Africa, signifies "a serpent," what does this discover to our view, but that Satan has the name of serpent among the Negro nations as well as among those of Europe?

" "The Israelites could not touch the brazen serpent.

Then they that were hurt came in to Moses and said: We have sinned, for we have spoken against our Lord and thee; pray for us unto God that he deliver from us these serpents.

"Do you remember the serpent I 'ad tattooed on my leg for a garter?"

Advancing he met a serpent which hung in a hole from which it could not get out.

Upon the day on which it fell to the lot of two of his children to be killed to feed the serpents, he rose up with indignation in presence of the king, and said: "Thou art the king, but wherefore on my head Cast fire and ashes?

Then all the fishes acknowledged that the crocodile was superior, for he had got the serpent into the water, and made him dive in it, and kept him under water half-an-hour.

For which cause God sent among them fiery-serpents, which bit and wounded many of them and slew also.

He had a dream in which he imagined that he laid himself down upon a heap of dry herbs, among which there were many prickly ones that gave him great uneasiness, and that he afterwards reposed himself on a soft bed of roses from which there sprung a serpent that wounded him to the heart with its sharp and venomed tongue.

The satyrs ran towards them, and laid hold of them, dragging them into a cavern, which was in the midst of the forest deep beneath the earth; and upon the ground round about the cavern lay a great serpent in spiral foldings, breathing poison into the cavern: in the branches of the forest above the serpent dismal birds of night croaked and screeched.

" While this proclamation was being read, I climbed to a branch of the tree just over my father, and dropped on him the poisonous serpent, which immediately bit him.

Who tears the serpent from the flesh.